Highly Specialised Cardiac Physiologist / Clinical Scientist

Job overview

Exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to work within the Cardiorespiratory department of York Hospital and the community diagnostic centres (CDC) of Selby and Askham Bar, performing transthoracic echocardiography, stress echocardiograms, transoesophageal echocardiography and supporting junior staff / training / mentoring. Managing the echocardiography service collaboratively with colleagues.

The department within York Hospital delivers inpatient and outpatient echocardiography, consultant led stress echocardiography, scientist led stress echocardiography, transoesophageal echocardiography and scientist led valve clinics

The CDC provides free parking and excellent facilities in this community setting.

The post is fixed term/secondment to cover maternity.

Please ensure you have the permission of your current line manager if you are an internal applicant applying on a secondment basis.

Main duties of the job

Provides highly complex, specialist Cardio-Respiratory service to patients from a range of specialties suffering from a wide variety of medical disorders.

Responsible for the provision, audit and quality of a specialist area of Cardio-Respiratory Physiology, Cardiac Ultrasound.

Responsible for the development and training of Clinical Physiologists (Cardio-Respiratory) within the cardiac ultrasound area.

Undertakes interpretation of results and provision of reports.

Works collaboratively on a day-to-day basis with others to ensure that service needs are met.

Provides advice to clinicians.

Performs transthoracic echocardiography.

Supervises junior staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

A full description of the role is available in the attachment: job description.

Please note that if a high number of applications are received this advert may close early. You are advised to submit your application at the earliest opportunity.

Working for the Trust

Across our organisation, people are guided by values that were co-developed with staff: we are kind; we are open; and we pursue excellence.

Our values play into our ambition to develop a more diverse workforce, truly representative of our communities.  We welcome applications from everyone, while working with our Staff Networks - including our Race Equality, LGBTQ+, Disability and Carers Networks - to increase the number of applications we receive from different backgrounds.  If there is anything we can do to make our application process more accessible to you, please contact: [email protected].

As part of seeking to become more inclusive, we will consider requests for flexible working from the start of your employment.  It may not be suitable for every role, but we will try and be supportive where we can.  We would encourage you to speak to the recruiting manager named within this advert to discuss any requirements you may have.

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